Mill Creek Memories

There is nothing that compares with returning to your childhood home; the only thing that would make it sweeter is to share the experience with your siblings. I spent my childhood on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, a small village that is situated along the...

Mindful

With an extra week this month, you’d think I could come up with something special and dad gum it, I believe I have. (You know, for my new metaphysical and mindful self, there’s nothing like a positive affirmation to instill the confidence I need to deliver a top-notch...

Minding Mice (Reprise)

A few years back I used my monthly column space to talk about the difficulties I was having trying to book the two bands I was in. I was going to use the herding cats analogy but decided it was too cliché so my Mountain View based research company (I believe in...

Minding Mice at a Crossroads

I always find it fun as my monthly deadline for this welcome column approaches to search for a catch phrase or a hook that I can use and riff on, if you will.It turns out that I have been having a problem with one of the bands I’m in and I was intending to use the...

Minding Mice III

I said I wouldn’t do it any more. Much more trouble than it is worth. What am I talking about, you ask.? Well I’m talking about herding cats or because I wanted another non cliche’ way to describe this very thankless enterprise, minding mice at the crossroads.  I...